Venus Williams may be long gone from the women's singles competition but she still has a chance of a Wimbledon title in the mixed doubles with Bob Bryan after the US pairing beat Jie Zheng and Max Mirnyi 7-5, 7-5 in yesterday's semi-finals.

Williams already has two grand slam titles from mixed events, having won at Australian Open and at Roland Garros in 1998 with Justin Gimelstob. She and Bryan will be keen to restore a sliver of pride to American tennis at this year's Wimbledon after the nation's worst performance since 1922 in the singles competition.

They will find out today who they will face in tomorrow's final with the Zimbabwe sister and brother combination of Cara and Wayne Black playing Andy Ram and Vera Zvonareva in the second semi.